[Nfbmo] Trouble

Fri Mar 4 01:52:08 UTC 2016

I think these are wonderful ideas. They may be ones that we have to phase
into next year's agenda after some discussion, but I think that we should
definitely make them a discussion item for the June board meeting. I really
do appreciate what you have to say, and I'm glad that you said it in an open
forum where we are likely to remember it and be able to act on it. I always
find your comments positive, and I think if we put our minds together on
this, we really can come up with something good.

Warmly,

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Randy Carmack via
Nfbmo
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2016 6:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Trouble

Gary,

Well said, I have 2 items that I hope to interject in a positive manner.

1. As far as Convention/Agenda ideas.  I personally would like to see 1 or
2 more social events or mixers or whatever you want to call them.  While I
know the people in my own chapter fairly well, I feel that there is not
enough of an opportunity to get to know our brothers and sisters in the
federation from across the state.  I do know that we do have trouble getting
people to come to or stay at the current social events but maybe if we all
could brainstorm and come up with a couple of different types of events, it
might bring more in.  I know that we have many very intelligent people among
our group and if we all put our heads together we could come up with some
awesome ideas.  I will start out with 2 ideas.  We could have a Bingo game
or a trivia game.  I think that building strong social relationships within
will help the federation as a whole to be stronger.

2. I think when it comes to registering early for convention that most of us
would love to tell you that we will definitely be able to attend even at the
end of the previous convention but have logistical issues that we may not be
able to work out in advance.  Such as financial ability, employment,
transportation, child care, etc....  I personally would have loved to
registered the first day that it was available to me but am still trying
work through a couple of these types of issues.

Sorry to have been so long winded but I sincerely hope that some of these
ideas help.

Sincerely,
Randy Carmack

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Gary Wunder via Nfbmo <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hello, friend. Fair enough. I understand the difficulty of beating my 
> head against the wall trying to come up with new ideas, and I suspect 
> from the suggestions of others that they too have the same difficulty. 
> I think one new wrinkle may be that we are going to do a segment on 
> the older blind, not something we have traditionally done before. We 
> have not talked much about medical conditions associated with 
> blindness, but I think that this convention we will talk about 
> non-twenty-four.
>
> Of course, we still hope to hear from Rehabilitation Services for the 
> Blind and Wolfner Library. We will hear a report about national 
> activities, our annual state report, a report from her governmental 
> affairs team, a report from our Employment Research Committee and an 
> upcoming seminar that is being planned, and a discussion about 
> transition from high school to college and what this entails. Because 
> we are in Springfield, I am going to see if we can get somebody from 
> the teacher training program to attend, but that hasn't been finalized 
> yet.
>
> I guess the real question is whether people really wait until they see 
> what an agenda is before deciding whether to come. This has never been 
> the case with me. When I attended my first convention in New Orleans, 
> registering for the convention was the way one got to look at an 
> agenda. The only thing you knew prior to that time was that you could 
> get your agenda in print or braille, and it would be exciting. Until 
> recently our state conventions have never been available in advance, 
> and some state conventions I have attended don't even have agendas in 
> braille. Now we usually have the convention agenda out a week or two 
> before, and we even encourage people to bring the agenda on a device 
> of their choosing.
>
> I know it's hard to believe, but folks are simply not ready to have 
> agenda items finalized months before the convention. Even now 
> Springfield is trying to figure out what an opening ceremony should 
> be. They are not unique in this regard. This is not to say that the 
> convention agenda couldn't be done earlier, but the question is 
> whether it really would do anything to increase registration or get 
> people to book into the hotel in a timely manner.
>
> Since this appears to be an issue, we might put ourselves to the task 
> of figuring out incentives to register early. We already do this with 
> preregistration, but there is no incentive we offer for calling and 
> getting a room ahead of time. Let's put our minds to this and see what we
can do.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bryan 
> Schulz via Nfbmo
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 10:58 PM
> To: 'NFB of Missouri Mailing List'
> Cc: Bryan Schulz
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Trouble
>
> Hi,
>
> I didn't really have anything to suggest when others are content with 
> the format.
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gary Wunder 
> via Nfbmo
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 8:38 PM
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> Cc: Gary Wunder; 'Bryan Schulz'
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Trouble
>
> If you want something different, I think there is still time to get it on.
> Each year we try for some new and some that people come to count on. 
> The agenda comes from the suggestions of the board and my plea for good
ideas.
> Yours are most welcome.
>
> Warmly,
>
> Gary
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bryan 
> Schulz via Nfbmo
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 8:11 PM
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> Cc: Bryan Schulz
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] Trouble
>
> Hi,
>
> Perhaps it would be helpful to know if there is anything different 
> planned on the agenda??
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmo [mailto:nfbmo-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Eugene S 
> Coulter via Nfbmo
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 7:33 PM
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> Cc: Eugene S Coulter
> Subject: [Nfbmo] Trouble
>
> I just received an Email from the hotel for our state convention they 
> are VERY concerned about our block. Only 32 rooms have been reserved 
> and there is only a week left to make reservations before our rooms 
> are dumped back into general inventory. Call-417-831-3131 to reserve your
room!!!!!
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